INTERPROVINCIAL

Waikato Argus, Volume XXI, Issue 3369, 24 December 1906, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL

[by TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.j BEER DEPOTS. Dunedin, Last Night. Argument of considerable interest, bearing on the licensing difficulty in Invercargill, was taken before Mr Justice Chapman in chambers this afternoon. The case was Koope v. McDowell. Mr Koope is a brewer and McDowell is the Collector of Customs at Invercargill. Since the carrying of no-license Mr Koope has had a beer depot just across the Waihopai Kiver, and beyond the no-license boundary, where he has been retailing beer in small kegs. Recently regulations were made by the Commissioner of Customs forbidding the issue of further permits to his or other such depots. The matter before the Court to-day was a notice of motion for a mandamus to compel the Collector to issue permits to the plaintiff under section 32 of the Beer Duty Act of 1880, for the removal of beer to bis depot for storage and sale. The new regulations provide that any such depot must be five miles beyond the boundary. His Honor reserved judgment.

GOVERNMENT LAND PURCHASE. . Nelson, Last Night. Advice has been received that the Government has purchased John Tinline's Whangapeka run of 4180 acres for closer settlement. The price locally has not transpired, but is supposed to be between fifteen and twenty thousand. The land adjoins and gridirons a large area of Crown land, so the whole will be cut up advantageously for settlement.

ALLEGED MISAPPROPRIATION. Mastbbton, Last Night. H. S. Izard, solicitor, of Grey town, a bankrupt, was charged before the Court on Saturday morning with misappropriating trust money, and was remanded till the 31st December, bail beingjulowed himself in £2OOO, and two sureties of .£2OOO each.

IMPERIAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE.

Wellington, Last Night. The High Commissioner (the Hon. W. P. Beeves), and the InspectorGeneral of Schools (Mr G. Hogben) will represent New Zealand at the Imperial Conference on Education to be held in England in May next. ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Wellington, Last Night. At the inquest on the death of Mrs Kensington, killed by the motor fire engine, the jury returned a verdict to the effect that deceased met her death by accident and misadventure, by being knocked down by a motor fire engine, and that no blame is attachable to the driver of the engine. The co-oner said he was bound to accept the verdict, but he wished to say he disagreed with it, particularly in view of the evidence tendered regarding the rate of speed at which the engine rounded the Bowenstreet corner. Christchurch. Last Night. William Thomas Felton was committed tor trial on Friday on a charge of having caused the death of George Tancred de Montalk by the negligent driving of a motor car on the Eiccarton road on the night of the sth inst. CHRISTMAS PAT I LITIES. Napier, This Day. A man named William Goullet, employed on the breakwater met with a fatal accident on Saturday evening. Goullet was engaged in tripping a monkey in connection with the pile driving operations, and by some means overbalanced himself and swung round. As the monkey decended it struck him as it fell, deceased’s right arm being severed from his body, and all the shoulder bones broken. His shoulder and elbow were literally smashed to pulp. After being struck the body fell into the water and sank, being recovered about 45 minutes afterwards by the harbour master. Deceased was 33 years of ago, and was a married man with one child.

Dunedin, This Day. A party of young men set out from Teviot Station on Wednesday from Alexandra. While on top of the mountains rain and mist set in, and the party became separated. William Kennedy failed to find his way out and a search party yesterday discovered his dead body at the bottom of a deep gully.

Auckland, This Day. A fatal accident occurred at the Mount Albert railway station on Saturday night. A married man named Brooks was getting off one of the carriages before the train stopped and fell, getting under the wheels. Three carriages ran over him; he was terribly cut about and succumbed almost immediately.